From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com,thorsten.blum@linux.dev,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] nilfs2-replace-vmalloc-copy_from_user-with-vmemdup_user.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:50:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251112005014.773A8C113D0@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: nilfs2: replace vmalloc + copy_from_user with vmemdup_user
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
nilfs2-replace-vmalloc-copy_from_user-with-vmemdup_user.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Subject: nilfs2: replace vmalloc + copy_from_user with vmemdup_user
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:46:43 +0900
Replace vmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with vmemdup_user() to
improve nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments() and nilfs_ioctl_set_suinfo(). Use
kvfree() to free the buffers created by vmemdup_user().
Use u64_to_user_ptr() instead of manually casting the pointers and
remove the obsolete 'out_free' label.
No functional changes intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251030154700.7444-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 35 ++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c~nilfs2-replace-vmalloc-copy_from_user-with-vmemdup_user
+++ a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy(struct
void *, size_t, size_t))
{
void *buf;
- void __user *base = (void __user *)(unsigned long)argv->v_base;
+ void __user *base = u64_to_user_ptr(argv->v_base);
size_t maxmembs, total, n;
ssize_t nr;
int ret, i;
@@ -836,7 +836,6 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(st
sizeof(struct nilfs_bdesc),
sizeof(__u64),
};
- void __user *base;
void *kbufs[5];
struct the_nilfs *nilfs;
size_t len, nsegs;
@@ -863,7 +862,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(st
* use kmalloc() for its buffer because the memory used for the
* segment numbers is small enough.
*/
- kbufs[4] = memdup_array_user((void __user *)(unsigned long)argv[4].v_base,
+ kbufs[4] = memdup_array_user(u64_to_user_ptr(argv[4].v_base),
nsegs, sizeof(__u64));
if (IS_ERR(kbufs[4])) {
ret = PTR_ERR(kbufs[4]);
@@ -883,20 +882,14 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(st
goto out_free;
len = argv[n].v_size * argv[n].v_nmembs;
- base = (void __user *)(unsigned long)argv[n].v_base;
if (len == 0) {
kbufs[n] = NULL;
continue;
}
- kbufs[n] = vmalloc(len);
- if (!kbufs[n]) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_free;
- }
- if (copy_from_user(kbufs[n], base, len)) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- vfree(kbufs[n]);
+ kbufs[n] = vmemdup_user(u64_to_user_ptr(argv[n].v_base), len);
+ if (IS_ERR(kbufs[n])) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(kbufs[n]);
goto out_free;
}
}
@@ -928,7 +921,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments(st
out_free:
while (--n >= 0)
- vfree(kbufs[n]);
+ kvfree(kbufs[n]);
kfree(kbufs[4]);
out:
mnt_drop_write_file(filp);
@@ -1181,7 +1174,6 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_set_suinfo(struct
struct nilfs_transaction_info ti;
struct nilfs_argv argv;
size_t len;
- void __user *base;
void *kbuf;
int ret;
@@ -1212,18 +1204,12 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_set_suinfo(struct
goto out;
}
- base = (void __user *)(unsigned long)argv.v_base;
- kbuf = vmalloc(len);
- if (!kbuf) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ kbuf = vmemdup_user(u64_to_user_ptr(argv.v_base), len);
+ if (IS_ERR(kbuf)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(kbuf);
goto out;
}
- if (copy_from_user(kbuf, base, len)) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto out_free;
- }
-
nilfs_transaction_begin(inode->i_sb, &ti, 0);
ret = nilfs_sufile_set_suinfo(nilfs->ns_sufile, kbuf, argv.v_size,
argv.v_nmembs);
@@ -1232,8 +1218,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_set_suinfo(struct
else
nilfs_transaction_commit(inode->i_sb); /* never fails */
-out_free:
- vfree(kbuf);
+ kvfree(kbuf);
out:
mnt_drop_write_file(filp);
return ret;
_
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